Look up textile know-how online with RIKIPEDIA.

Looking up technical terms has changed complete¬ly since the world-famous Wikipedia encyclopedia went live on the Internet in 2001. You can find the information you’re looking for much faster in Wikipe¬dia – in the form of text, images or as a video – than in a book.

RIKIPEDIA – that’s the name of the new online ref¬erence work for short staple spinning technology by Rieter. With RIKIPEDIA, Rieter presents textile know-how from “The Rieter Manual of Spinning” series of volumes on the Internet in the form you are familiar with from Wikipedia.

Initial content from “The Rieter Manual of Spinning” series of volumes has now been edited for the In-ternet and gone live in English on www.rieter.com. More content is being added daily.

Structure
The structure of the RIKIPEDIA online reference work is similar to that of the existing volumes and is subdi-vided into the following areas:

• Technology of Short-Staple Spinning
• Fiber Preparation
• Spinning Preparation
• Ring Spinning
• Rotor Spinning
• Alternative Spinning Systems

The table of contents for the relevant thematic field is always displayed to the right of the content, facili-tating rapid navigation through the contents (Fig. 3, item 7).

 Initial screen of RIKIPEDIA

Key:
1. General explanation of RIKIPEDIA.
2. News – what has been updated.
3. Random article – content is selected at random.

RIKIPEDIA contents page.

Functions

The basic functions that are familiar from Wikipedia can also be found on RIKIPEDIA (Fig. 3).
1. Search – A search function for content only with¬in RIKIPEDIA can be found in the navigation menu on the left-hand side. The results are sorted by rel¬evance and listed in detail.
2. Topic selection – The relevant main chapters can be selected here.
3. Print – A print function has been added for us¬ers who want to print out content. If this function is used, a separate window is opened, in which the content has been optimized for printing.
4. Permalink – This link can be used if reference is made to RIKIPEDIA.
5. View images – The embedded images can be mag¬nified with a click. A further click on the open image closes it again.
6. Comment – New findings or suggested corrections regarding the individual topics can be sent to Rieter by using the Comment function under each article.
7. Table of contents – Rapid surfing through the con¬tent via the table of contents.

Recommended browser
Website development has continued at a very rapid pace in recent years. Rieter has decided to take ad-vantage of these new technologies with RIKIPEDIA. In order to surf through the contents as comfortably as possible, it is advisable to use one of the new brows¬er types, e.g. Mozilla Firefox (www.mozilla.com). If you are interested, just visit RIKIPEDIA now at www.rieter.com/rikipedia and surf through the ini¬tial content – further content is being published con¬tinuously.

Author
Michel Gelin, Project, Manager Marketing, Winterthur
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